Music influence/selection

As both me and Jack are big fans of the 60′s, specifically the music…I am guessing that the main reason we actually did decide to create a piece set in the 60′s (debate over whether it actually is set here is later…), either that or i finally noticed how large Jacks wardrobe of ‘out-of-date’ clothes stretched back too! The Kinks, The Who, The Small Faces, The Box Tops, Cream, The Rolling Stones etc. was all top of our list of our favourites. We came to the conclusion, earlier on than we actually decided a set piece of music, that the only track we would be playing over the opening titles would be that of which the vinyl player was playing. We wanted something that built into the story, and song, slowly so tracks like; All Day and All of the Night, Jumping Jack Flash and Hi Ho Silver Lining seemed really suitable. We then found out that we had to use uncopyrighted music for our final piece. So Jack, in charge of all things musical, set about finding an appropriate song.

Using the websites;

http://www.unsginedbands.com/

http://www.e2bn.org/audionetwork/audionetwork_out.php

We came up with about nine songs that we originally would have liked to put over the piece, soem from unsigned bands and other from e2bn. Here is the list of the original songs;

Grolling home: Rita + the rock 'n' rollers

Jazzed: Blue Altitude

Good ol days: Kim o harper

Lonely hearts club dance: Jackie Barnett

I got a dime: The straight 8's

Touch me 2: Gareth Johnson

T Bird Roller: Christian Marsac

Stratocaster: Christian Marsac

Stompbox boogie: Anthony Leonard

The three pieces we were tempted towards all had a different genre of 60's like music. The first being Lonely Hearts Club Dance, the second being Stratocaster and the last being Anthony Leonard’s Stompbox Boogie. We found Stompbox boogie the most appropriate and most soulful and earthy like the 60′s sound that we thought resembled the emotional music of the era.

We then found out that we could use copyrighted music and so decided to resort back to the original sixties masters, The Rolling stones.

The pieces we namely wanted to have in the piece, or at least the first song we would hear in the film were;

Jumping Jack Flash

Lets Spend The Night Together

and Street Fighting Man

Testing Jumping Jack Flash, Lets Spend The Night Together and Street Fighting Man, we decided that Street Fighting Man had the best opening to go over a vinyl playing and also had the best pace to match the films cut and speed pace.